Smriti Mandhana broke the world record, achieved the throne by defeating all the players in T20I
Female Indian batsman Smriti Mandhana
Smriti Mandhana Fifty In Women T20I: Smriti Mandhana is in excellent form and is scoring a lot of runs with her bat in the T20 series against West Indies. So far, 2 matches of the series have been played and Mandhana has scored half-centuries in both. In the second T20 match, the Indian women’s team had to face defeat by 9 wickets against West Indies. Apart from Mandhana, the rest of the Indian batsmen proved to be flops badly in the match. For this reason the team had to bear the brunt of defeat.
Mandhana played an inning of 62 runs
Smriti Mandhana also took over the responsibility of captaincy in place of Harmanpreet Kaur in the second T20 match against West Indies. In this match, he scored 62 runs in 41 balls, which included 9 fours and one six. This is her 29th half-century in Women’s T20 International cricket. With this, she has become the player with the most number of half-centuries in women’s T20I cricket and has broken the world record of New Zealand’s Suzie Bates. Suzie Bates has scored 28 half-centuries in women’s T20I cricket. Mandhana has now left all the players behind in terms of scoring half-centuries in Women’s T20 International cricket.
Players who have scored the most half centuries in women’s T20I cricket:
- Smriti Mandhana (India)- 29
- Suzie Bates (New Zealand) – 28
- Beth Mooney (Australia) – 23
- Stafanie Taylor (West Indies) – 22
- Sophie Devine (New Zealand) – 21
Has scored more than 3500 runs in women’s T20I
28 year old Smriti Mandhana made her T20 International debut for the Indian team in 2013. Since then she became an important link in the batting order of Team India. So far he has scored 3684 runs in 147 T20 International matches for India. She is the second highest run scorer in Women’s T20 International.
Hayley Mathews snatched the match from India
In the second T20 match against India, West Indies captain Hayley Matthews won the toss and decided to bowl first. After this, Team India scored 159 runs after 20 overs. Where Mandhana scored a half-century for India. Whereas Richa Ghosh played an inning of 32 runs. Apart from these players, other players failed to perform well. After this, Hayley Mathews scored 85 runs for West Indies and won the match unilaterally for the team. Saima Thakor took the only wicket for India.
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